2008

Greene, M.R., & Oliva, A. (in press). Recognition of Natural Scenes from Global Properties: Seeing the Forest Without Representing the Trees. Cognitive Psychology abstract
Alvarez, G.A., & Oliva, A. (2008). The Representation of Simple Ensemble Visual Features Outside the Focus of Attention. Psychological Science, 19(4), 392-398. abstractarticle
Brady, T.F., & Oliva, A. (2008). Statistical Learning using Real World Scenes: Extracting Categorical Regularities without Conscious Intent. Psychological Science, 19(7), 678-685. abstractposterarticle
Boucart, M., Dinon, J.F., Despretz, P., Desmettre, T., Hladiuk, K., & Oliva, A. (2008). Recognition of facial emotion in low vision: A flexible usage of facial features. Visual Neuroscience, 25, 1-7. abstract
Brady, T.F., Konkle, T., Alvarez, G.A., & Oliva, A. Visual long-term memory has a massive and high fidelity storage capacity.In revision abstract
Konkle, T., & Oliva, A. Objects, Big and Small: The Physical Size of Objects Biases Perception and Memory.In revisionabstract
Greene, M.R., & Oliva, A. The briefest of glances: the time course of natural scene understanding. Submittedabstract

2007

Oliva, A. & Torralba, A. (2007). The Role of Context in Object Recognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11(12), 520-527. abstractarticle
Alvarez, G. A, Konkle, T., & Oliva, A. (2007). Searching in Dynamic Displays: Effects of Configural and Spatial-Temporal Predictability. Journal of Vision, 7(14), 12, 1-12. abstractarticle
Serre, T., Oliva, A., & Poggio, T. A. (2007). A feedforward architecture accounts for rapid categorization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104 (15), 6424-6429abstractarticleposterslides
Konkle, T., & Oliva, A. (2007). Normative representation of objects: evidence for an ecological bias in object perception and memory.In D.S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.). Proceedings of the Twenty-Nine Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (p 407-412), Nashville, TN: Cognitive Science Society 2007.abstractarticle
Alvarez, G., & Oliva, A. (2007). The Role of Global Layout in Visual Short-term Memory. Visual Cognition, 15(1), 70-73.abstractarticle

2006

Torralba, A., Oliva, A., Castelhano, M., & Henderson, J.M. (2006). Contextual guidance of eye movements and attention in real-world scenes: the role of global features in object search. Psychological Review, 113, 766-786.abstractarticlewebsite
Oliva, A., Torralba, A., & Schyns, P.G. (2006). Hybrid Images. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Siggraph), 25, 3, 527-532.abstractarticleslideswebsite
Greene, M.R., & Oliva, A. (2006). Natural scene categorization from the conjunction of ecological global properties. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 291-296.abstractarticleposter
Oliva, A. & Torralba, A. (2006). Building the Gist of a Scene: The Role of Global Image Features in Recognition. Progress in Brain Research: Visual perception, 155, 23-36.abstractlow resolution articlehigh resolution article (30mb)

2005

Goffaux, V., Jacques, C., Mouraux, A., Oliva, A., Rossion, B., & Schyns. P.G. (2005). Diagnostic colors contribute to early stages of scene categorization: behavioral and neurophysiological evidences. Visual Cognition, 12, 878-892.abstractarticle
Oliva, A. (2005). Gist of the scene. In the Encyclopedia of Neurobiology of Attention. L. Itti, G. Rees, and J.K. Tsotsos (Eds.), Elsevier, San Diego, CA (pages 251-256).article
Hidalgo-Sotelo, B., Oliva, A., & Torralba, A. (2005). Human Learning of Contextual Priors for Object Search: Where does the time go? Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) - Workshops Ð vol. 3, p 86 -93.article

2004

Oliva, A., Mack, M.L., Shrestha, M., & Peeper, A. (2004). Identifying the Perceptual Dimensions of Visual Complexity of Scenes. The 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Chicago, August 2004.abstractarticle
Oliva, A., Wolfe, J. M, & Arsenio, H. (2004). Panoramic Search: The interaction of Memory and Vision in Search through a Familiar Scene. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 1132Ð1146.abstractarticle

2003

Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (2003). Statistics of Natural Images Categories.Network: Computation in Neural Systems, 14, 391-412.abstractarticle
Oliva, A., Torralba, A. Casthelano, M. & Henderson, J. (2003). Top-Down control of visual attention in object detection. Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference Image Processing, vol1 (pp 253-256).article

2002

Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (2002). Depth estimation from image structure. IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 24,1226-1238.abstractarticle
Wolfe, J.M., Oliva, A., Horowitz, T. S, Butcher, S., & Bompas, A. (2002). Segmentation of Objects from Backgrounds in Visual Search Tasks.Vision Research, 42, 2985-3004.abstractarticle
Wolfe, J.M., Oliva, A., Butcher, S., & Arsenio, H. (2002). An unbinding problem: the disintegration of visible, previously attended objects does not attract attention. Journal of Vision, 2(3), 256-271.abstractarticle
Oliva, A., & Torralba, A. (2002). Scene-centered description from spatial envelope properties. Lecture Note in Computer Science Serie Proc. Second International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision, Eds: H. Bulthoff, S.W. Lee, T. Poggio, & C. Wallraven. Srpinger-Verlag, Tuebingen, Germany (pp.263-272).article

2001

Oliva, A., & Torralba, A. (2001). Modeling the Shape of the Scene: a Holistic Representation of the Spatial Envelope. International Journal in Computer Vision, 42, 145-175.abstractarticledatabase

2000

Oliva, A., & Schyns, P.G. (2000). Diagnostic colors mediate scene recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 41,176-210.abstractarticle
Guerin-Dugue, A., & Oliva, A. (2000). Classification of Scene Photographs from Local Orientations features. Pattern Recognition Letters, 21,1135-1140.

Before 2000

Schyns, P.G. & Oliva, A. (1999). Dr. Angry and Mr. Smile: when categorization flexibly modifies the perception of faces in rapid visual presentations. Cognition, 69, 243-265.abstractarticle
Torralba, A., & Oliva, A. (1999). Semantic Organization of Scenes using Discriminant Structural Templates. Proceedings of the International Conference in Computer Vision (ICCV99), Korfu, Greece. (pp. 1253-1258).article
Oliva, A., Torralba, A., Guerin-Dugue, A., & Herault, J. (1999). Global scene categorization from spectral templates. Proceedings of the Challenge of Image Retrieval, Newcastle. Electronic Workshop Computer Series, Springer-Verlag.
Guerin-Dugue, A., & Oliva, A. (1999). Classification of natural images from distributions of local dominant orientations. Proceedings of the 11th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Kangerlussaaq, Greenland, June 7-11. (pp 203-211).
Oliva, A. & Schyns, P.G. (1997). Coarse blobs or fine edges? Evidence that information diagnosticity changes the perception of complex visual stimuli. Cognitive Psychology, 34, 72-107.abstractarticle
Oliva, A., Schyns, P.G., & Akamatsu (1997). The role of color for face detection in a complex background. Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, HIP96-34 (pp.55-60).
Schyns, P.G. & Oliva, A. (1997). Flexible, diagnostically-driven, rather than fixed, perceptually determined scale selection in scene and face recognition. Perception, 26, 1027-1038.abstract
Herault, J., Oliva, A., & Guerin-Dugue, A. (1997). Scene Categorization by Curvilinear Component Analysis of Low Frequency Spectra. Proceedings of the European Symposium of Artificial Neural Networks, Bruges, Belgium.
Oliva, A. & Schyns, P.G. (1996). Color influences fast scene categorization. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, San Diego, California. (pp.239-242).
Oliva, A. & Schyns, P.G. (1995). Mandatory scale perception promotes flexible scene categorizations. Proceedings of the17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Pennsylvania, (pp.159-163).
Schyns, P.G. & Oliva, A. (1994). From blobs to boundary edges: Evidence for time- and spatial-scale-dependent scene recognition. Psychological Science, 5, 195-200.abstractarticle
Habib, M., Gayraud, D., Oliva, A., Regis, J., Salomon, G., & Khalil, R. (1991). Effects of handedness and sex on the morphology of the corpus callosum. Brain & Cognition, 16, 41-61.

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